Gambo and T_Wil1 Photopack

[Merkle923]

While we're here, one more Met. Well-traveled lefty weeks before he made his first major league roster.

[Merkle923]

This is not a Dexter, but part of the 2015 large collection I've referenced a couple of times.

Topps did not get him during his second Phillies tour until midseason 1969, then shot him again in Yankees' camp in 1970. I'll never be certain why given all the images the company took of him with the Phils between 1957 and his trade to L.A. in 1961 that they didn't recycle one of them in the card sets of 1968 and 1969 (I mean, there's a shot of Chris Short in the 1969 set that was clearly taken at the Polo Grounds, dating it to no later than 1962).

[Merkle923]

One more tough Met in a Dexter pose - spent most of two seasons with them, Topps posed him, never put him in a set.

[Merkle923]

Here's one of those thread-defying guys: Woody Huyke Minor & Mexican Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

Woody Huyke caught for 13 years in the minors (seven in AAA) and managed for 31 years more (29 of them managing the Pirates' team in the Gulf Coast Rookie League). But Dexter captured him in his only appearance in a major league camp as a player with the 1967 A's, so I was loathe to relegate him to the minor league thread.

[Merkle923]

There's a color shot of this two-month 1967 Giant, a not-so-good batting pose, by Brace. But the rest in public distribution are black and white and this I think is new to general use.

[okcochise]

Thank you sir for the Farrell. That will definitely do nicely.

[SDL]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Here's one of those thread-defying guys: Woody Huyke Minor & Mexican Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

Woody Huyke caught for 13 years in the minors (seven in AAA) and managed for 31 years more (29 of them managing the Pirates' team in the Gulf Coast Rookie League). But Dexter captured him in his only appearance in a major league camp as a player with the 1967 A's, so I was loathe to relegate him to the minor league thread.

I see Woody every spring at Pirate City. He is gonna flip when he sees this

[Merkle923]

I'll be happy to get the image scanned for him to a DVD if he'd like it

[Merkle923]

Confirming the sleuthing on the Cubs pitcher who might have been Segelke but was not...

[SDL]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

I'll be happy to get the image scanned for him to a DVD if he'd like it

What I'll do is print one out for me to get signed by him. If he wants one (and I'm sure he will), there's an Office Depot near Pirate City and I can get one done for him

Part of the fun will be when the kids he coaches see the pic

[Buster Narum]

Originally Posted by Merkle923

Here's Sullivan in his one-year stint as a Jerry Grote back-up in New York.

Quick story - growing up in Queens 20 minutes east of Shea in the 60s, lots of the ballplayers (who obviously didn't make so much money then) lived in and around the neighborhood. The family across the street was related to Dave Giusti, and from there, my sister wound up baby-sitting in 1966 for Jerry Grote as well as Ron Swoboda and Gordie Richardson. It was one of the bigger thrills of my 8-year old life when Grote pulled into my driveway one night in his station wagon and gave me his autograph

I also got Swoboda's autograph and will always remember how my sister said that his apartment in Flushing was filled with empty cream soda bottles

[SPORTSMEM817]

Such a young age RIP


Perth Heat baseball legend Greg Jelks dies, aged 55 | Community News Group

[cheech411]

d mcmahon w sox c dobson kc c hiller mets thanks for your time!!!!!!!!!!

[SPORTSMEM817]

Donald Johnson Obituary - Ohio - Walker Funeral Home - Mt. Healthy

[Oriole1952]

GREAT story about a wonderful man who gave back a LOT MORE to the community then he ever got. Rest well Groundhog, you have earned your place in heaven and in the hearts of countless young ball players.....

[Oriole1952]

Jimmy Schaffer was a RH batter but is shown in both vault pics as a lefty. It's not a reverse image so was he just fooling the photographer or could this be someone else?

[rrb77]

listed on fedxit as Paddy Livingston 1920. I can't find any indication of him having been with Red Sox. Any help identifying this player is appreciated.

[rlumpkin1@tampabay.rr.com]

Originally Posted by rrb77

listed on fedxit as Paddy Livingston 1920. I can't find any indication of him having been with Red Sox. Any help identifying this player is appreciated.

Maybe it might be Paddy Smith from the 1920 Red Sox.

[Rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Oriole1952

Jimmy Schaffer was a RH batter but is shown in both vault pics as a lefty. It's not a reverse image so was he just fooling the photographer or could this be someone else?

Since his grip would be cross-handed for a left-handed hitter, I'm guessing the pose is part of an exaggerated follow-through.

[Merkle923]

The fellow in the Red Sox uniform sure looks like him. It's a small shot heavily distorted by digitalizing but below, this is Livingston in the A's uniform during the 1911 World Series (with Rube Marquard).

Player biographies of the era are ludicrously incomplete (I've found two just now about 1920: one says he had begun to work for the Cleveland Bridge Authority that year, another says he was in the minors). More importantly, major league coaching records are even worse.

Livingston appears nowhere in any official list of coaches but SABR's biography says he was back with the A's as "bullpen catcher" in 1919 and it is plausible he might have had a similar position with the Red Sox around the same time. This could also have been from a Boston old-timers' event (they started having them, off and on, in the late 19th Century) with Livingston in a borrowed uniform.